Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> Why? Was there something you were looking forward > to in the next > release? Sorry if this was meant only for Arunav but I would very much like to see DVD writing fixed. Specifically the ability to reliably do backups to DVD+R media. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backups

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
The director is running on xeon 2.8Ghz having 4GB of RAM on Hardware Raid0 and the storage demaon is on dual P4 3Ghz having 1GB ram and 1TB disk spool(xfs) also on Hardware Raid0. Most of clients are on P4 3gig machine with 1Gb ram running linux and windows.At peak there were atleast 40Jobs run

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 8 Sep 2005 at 21:10, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > When is the next major release of bacula going to come? > > When it's ready. That was my thought when the first email came through. > Definitely not before that time. We can't say. It depends on how debugging goes, how much time we have to test,

Re: [Bacula-users] btape

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Maurizio Santini wrote: I found the way of doing it. I ran umount instead of unmount from bconsole. Interesting. I thought these commands were synonymous... Here I can access a tape drive after unmount, too. Did your drive perhaps need some time to recover after being rewound or release

Re: [Bacula-users] Using "Volume Use Duration"

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Tom Boyda wrote: Looking into upgrading - will I be required to upgrade my windows clients from 1.37.32 to be able to use 1.37.38 director and storage daemon? I *think* not: #ver goblin-dir Version: 1.37.38 (04 September 2005) #status client=ork-fd Connecting to Client ork-fd at ork:9102

Re: [Bacula-users] Using "Volume Use Duration"

2005-09-08 Thread Tom Boyda
Hello, Tom Boyda wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. >You should consider upgrading to 1.37.38 - I think there are some >serious improvements. Looking into upgrading - will I be required to upgrade my windows clients from 1.37.32 to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
When it's ready. Definitely not before that time. Look through the archives of bacula-users and -devel for Kerns posts on that topic. Arno Arunav Mandal wrote: When is the next major release of bacula going to come? Arunav. --- SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backups

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Arunav Mandal wrote: I am running 1.36.3 on both director and storage deamon and diff. versions on 150 clients. Recently I started spooling to disk first then to tape with around 100 concurrent connections for director and storage deamons. Now the backups seems to take time Rate seems to

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Josh Fisher
I believe the "Maximum Network Buffer Size" should be less than or equal to the OS's maximum socket send buffer size or maximum socket receive buffer size, (whichever is smaller). 65536 should be OK. You don't mention the sd daemon. You might first try turning up "Maximum Network Buffer Size"

[Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
When is the next major release of bacula going to come? Arunav. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development

Re: [Bacula-users] Using "Volume Use Duration"

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Tom Boyda wrote: Hello, I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. You should consider upgrading to 1.37.38 - I think there are some serious improvements. I have set my monthly pools to have "Volume Use Duration" of 3 days. Three days was an arbitrary

[Bacula-users] Filset exclusions

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am using bacula 1.36.3 version and I tried this Filset but still I can't exclude mp3's and other files which I want to exclude. Anything I am missing here? FileSet { Name = linux-default #Ignore Fileset changes = yes Include { Options { signature=SHA1 verify=pins1 onefs=no sparse=no

[Bacula-users] Slow backups

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am running 1.36.3 on both director and storage deamon and diff. versions on 150 clients. Recently I started spooling to disk first then to tape with around 100 concurrent connections for director and storage deamons. Now the backups seems to take time Rate seems to be around 700KB/s before spo

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Maurizio Santini wrote: Thank you for your answer but let me rephrase the question. I have "Maximum Network Buffer Size = 65536" in bacula-fd.conf in the machine where the tape drive, bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf are, but Maximum Network Buffer Size in bacula-fd.conf in the client

[Bacula-users] Using "Volume Use Duration"

2005-09-08 Thread Tom Boyda
Hello, I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. I have set my monthly pools to have "Volume Use Duration" of 3 days. Three days was an arbitrary number - all full backups complete in about 8 hours - I picked three days in case there was a problem I would have time

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Maurizio Santini
Thank you for your answer but let me rephrase the question. I have "Maximum Network Buffer Size = 65536" in bacula-fd.conf in the machine where the tape drive, bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf are, but Maximum Network Buffer Size in bacula-fd.conf in the client machines is set with the default v

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Maurizio Santini wrote: Any hints on this? nothing definite, sorry. Thanks, On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:48, Maurizio Santini wrote: Hi, It might be a silly question but does the directive "Maximum Network Buffer Size = " need to be set in any bacula-fd.conf (I mean all clients) or on

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes etc. You need

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Maurizio Santini
Any hints on this? Thanks, On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:48, Maurizio Santini wrote: > Hi, > > It might be a silly question but does the directive "Maximum Network > Buffer Size = " need to be set in any bacula-fd.conf (I mean all > clients) or only in the machine where the tape drive reside? > > Tha

[Bacula-users] [Fwd: recycling status]

2005-09-08 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Original Message Subject: recycling status Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:49:46 +0200 From: Jesús Arnáiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BACULA users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi there. I use Version: 1.36.3 of bacula. I use file disk as storage media. In our configuration we have the default

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Err

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Does your system have the tapeinfo application? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projec

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> -- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression > set > > on with both new and old? > > I never tried it with SW compression on the tape > drive, because bacula > howto says you shouldn't use that when writing to a > tape drive. > > Should

[Bacula-users] Bacula-web install

2005-09-08 Thread Danie Theron
Hi , Installed bacula-web without a hitch , ran the test.php everything came up roses , when I want to connect to bacula-web (my.web.ip/bacula-web/ I get : DB Error: extension not found Am I shorting a Pear extenstion or two? Can anyone tell me which pear packages are needed for bacula-web

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression set > on with both new and old? I never tried it with SW compression on the tape drive, because bacula howto says you shouldn't use that when writing to a tape drive. Should I use it anyway? -- H

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression set on with both new and old? John --- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- quoting Alan Brown -- > > > SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of > storing 50GB or 100GB > > > (compressed) onto SLR tapes. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> Probably, but what it really comes down to is that > claims of 2:1 > compression ratios are rarely seen in real world > situations. > > I get about 1.1-1.2:1 on full backups, and data > incrementals, because the Exactly. I rarely get anywhere near 2:1 on my data (medical images) which is gener

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Alan Brown -- > > SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB > > (compressed) onto SLR tapes. > > Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. I know, that was what I wanted to say... > > Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tapes, but there I get an "out of space" erro

Re: [Bacula-users] backup policies ?

2005-09-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of several thousand) are actually changing, however it looks like the entire dircetory is being backed up. Kern, i

Re: [Bacula-users] backup-sd log question

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:51:37 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Arno> Martin Simmons wrote: >>> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:18:45 +0200, Daniel Holtkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> Daniel> Hello ! >> Daniel> 07-Sep 10:58 backup-sd: Committing spooled data to

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-08 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Arno, These customers are not the most technically feasible people, and I balk at them actually using a console program to do restores. They were previously using a graphical Arcserve program under Netware. I really don't want to make them open up another wx-console and type mount, but from w

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-08 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 & 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for the windows machine pool. Each pool

[Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-08 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Hi, I've just started using Bacula, and I'm having several issues. The pressing one right now is, I just went to a customer site, and used wx-console to show them how to do a restore. I set her to the operator email address, and she got an email to insert the "Wednesday-2" tape. We did that, b

[Bacula-users] marking wildcards from root directory

2005-09-08 Thread Scott Parker
We are trying to find specific files *.tif to restore from the root directory of a backup job. The 'find' command does find all the files but we can't seem to 'mark' all the wildcard tiffs. If anyone knows of a way to do this without having to go through every directory, it would be greatly ap

[Bacula-users] Re: Scratch pool

2005-09-08 Thread Birger Blixt
Hi. I'm new to the list, and saw the mail from Craig Holyoak in the list archive. I did a misstake by reading the developer manual when using Bacula 1.36.2 so I created a Scratch pool, and a script to move purged tapes to that pool PoolId 7 in my case. #!/bin/sh # MYSQL=/extra/mysql/4.0.18/bin/

[Bacula-users] Nubee autochanger question (volume labeling)

2005-09-08 Thread R. Michael Sharkey
Sorry guys if this is a dumb newbee question. I'm just getting my bacula set up for the first time, and I have an autochanger with 6 tapes per cartridge attached to a linux box. I made my .conf files, and ran btape on it and everything including the autochanger operation checked out fine. N

[Bacula-users] bconsole restore - æøå problem

2005-09-08 Thread Per Jensen
List, Version used: bacula 1.34.6 The other day I had to restore a few directories. I fired up bconsole, and started the restore command. I was not able to get bconsole to recognize the 'æøå' characters and was therefore not able to mark the directories in question. To get the job done i rest

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgreql-PITR

2005-09-08 Thread Marc Schoechlin
Hi there, yesterday I read about the nice point-in-time-recovery (PITR) feature of postgresql - and decided to use this in future. (See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup-online.html) PITR gives you the ability to have really continuous backup of your postgresql-database. I sa

[Bacula-users] What DB should i use/speed question

2005-09-08 Thread Florian Schnabel
Since i do a daily backup on Tape (weekly rotation) and one other on HD (2 Files in rotation) with about 250k files i stated to wonder if sqllite is the right way to store my data ... any suggestions about this ? Florian --- SF.Net email is

[Bacula-users] IBM 3590 autochanger

2005-09-08 Thread Samuel Renato Jesus Marques Neves
Has anyone configured bacula with IBM 3590 autochanger? Which Media Type did you use in the bacula-sd config file? Could you post your bacula-sd.conf? Thanks. Best Regards. Samuel. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conf

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an "TANDBERG SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive compressio